Pago Pago, Samoa 
Oct # 31, 1964 llp.m* 
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Just a short note to say hi. With all of the record keening we have been 
doing we haven't had v°rv much time for writing letters. There hasn't been 
very much to sav anyhow. Since we haven't received any mail vet that doesn’t 
belt) either. The mail will be on board at 7 am tomorrow morning and we'll 
pull out o port around Q am so there won't be much time, if anv, for answering 
mail. 
Just about 15 minutes ago Fred and I finished up all of the records for 
the Tii*.at half of the trip, X have been working on Snarf cards for the oast 
10 or l c minutes and have riooed three of them off but now feel mvself weaken¬ 
ing and, although I'd like to, don't think anv more will get done. I .lust 
haven't her) anv inspiration this trio and there .lust hasn't been sufficient 
time for Snarf-carding. Right now I'm sort of bleary - eyed from about 11 
hours of oaoer work today. There iust doesn't seem to be any end to it 
sometimes as you well know. 
We have no idea as to how many birds we'll encounter and band on the second 
half of the trip. We do know that we'll have a rough time when we reach Jarvis 
Island because there will be a full moon throughout our stav. We alwavs seem 
to hit the full moon on the wrong islands. The full moon simply means you have 
to do about two times as much running for onlv about one-third as manv birds. 
As alwavs Pago Pago has been its usual, uninspiring (rather depressing) 
self. This Place doesn't change a great deal from one trip to the next. 
We're haoov to announce that the weather has been eery pleasant during this 
stav - nice and cool with regular afternoon thundershowers that cool things 
off even more, 
in spite of everything we have managed to get out a rather stunning issue 
o f the Fairv Island Times. Last trip we simply couldn't get up enough ambition 
or inspiration to publish the Times. This trip, with a little advance planning 
and writing (?) we were able to whip out an issue. Its a little sick in a few 
spots but then so are we. Hope you en.ioy reading it. 
Hone you and your family are well. We're looking forward to seeing you 
a" 1 ! in December. Don't let our piles of paperwork distress you - we promise 
to bring back some more and then help you with it. 
